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.Dd October 22, 2009
.Dt ICONV 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm iconv
.Nd codeset conversion utility
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl cs
.Fl f
.Ar from_name
.Fl t
.Ar to_name
.Op Ar file ...
.Nm
.Fl f
.Ar from_name
.Op Fl cs
.Op Fl t Ar to_name
.Op Ar file ...
.Nm
.Fl t
.Ar to_name
.Op Fl cs
.Op Fl f Ar from_name
.Op Ar file ...
.Nm
.Fl l
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
utility converts the codeset of
.Ar file
(or from standard input if no file is specified) from codeset
.Ar from_name
to codeset
.Ar to_name
and outputs the
converted text on standard output.
.Pp
The following options are available:
.Bl -tag -width 0123
.It Fl c
Prevent output of any invalid characters.
By default,
.Nm
outputs an
.Dq invalid character
specified by the
.Ar to_name
codeset when it encounts a character which is valid in the
.Ar from_name
codeset but does not have a corresponding character in the
.Ar to_name
codeset.
.It Fl f
Specifies the source codeset name as
.Ar from_name .
.It Fl l
Lists available codeset names.
Note that not all combinations of
.Ar from_name
and
.Ar to_name
are valid.
.It Fl s
Silent.
By default,
.Nm
outputs the number of
.Dq invalid characters
to standard error if they exist.
This option prevents this behaviour.
.It Fl t
Specifies the destination codeset name as
.Ar to_name .
.El
.Sh EXIT STATUS
.Ex -std iconv
.Sh EXAMPLES
Convert
.Pa file.txt
from IBM273 to UTF-8 and save the result to
.Pa converted.txt :
.Pp
.Dl iconv -f IBM273 -t UTF-8 file.txt > converted.txt
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr mkcsmapper 1 ,
.Xr mkesdb 1 ,
.Xr iconv 3
.Sh STANDARDS
.Nm
conform to
.St -p1003.1-2008 .
.Sh HISTORY
.Nm
first appeared in
.Nx 2.0 , and made its appearance in
.Fx 9.0 .
